Ark

Report of Ryzom Forge's meeting - monday, 30th of april 2015.

Patchlet v7 / Mods

The v7 of the patchlet system will soon be implemented, with the possibility to subscribe / unsubscribe to update channels.

On a concrete point of view, a new webIG app will allow to subscribe, and once the client restarted, the files will be downloaded. The players who want it will be able to manage a channel (add files, remove them, update them).

If you don't subscribe, you don't get the update.
The patchlet channels will only affect the non officiel and non RP additions. The players who don't want any change (as much from RF, players, HRP event) will be able to keep an untouched universe. But they will receive all the official changes.

The patchlet system affects only the data files. And regarding the players addition, in a first time, only the graphic files.

The patchlet will be open source. It's php and lua. Ulukyn will add the information as soon as it's ready for release.

Bnp can't be added because the file is locked by the client, by the way, unable to delete when ingame.

We have tested the Patchlet with ubuntu client + macos client (from app store). Both works.

One of the aims of the patchlet also, for the players, is to highlight the work from Ryzom Forge. From this, several people can test their aditions and give their feedback.

Meeting's report - 27th of april 2015:

<Goki_ET> Work is still on going on Ark itself, but the new UI is now much more usable. Work on the Encyclopedia rites will commence as soon as a few key modules are ready (v4 Dialogue mainly). I will prepare the first first rite, so it can be used as an example for others to assist in writing the other rites following.
*Wiedii: Does it mean that the diagrams you receive suit you? Can we continue this rite and the other ones on this way?
<Goki_ET> my only comment for now: static images of the flowcharts would be better in a text format, so that text could be selectable ;)
<wiedii> I have now a tool to extract the text content
<Goki_ET> that will be useful
*Wiedii: Ok, i'll try to see for it to be translated quickly then.

<Goki_ET> For those interested in assisting, the Ark team has been given a small project to work on, which I plan to use to help some learn the basics of ark, and maybe a little fun along the way. The event team has OK'd for us to design and build an automated event for the next Anlor winn - it must still be validated of course. There will be a post on the forums, arrangeing a meeting to start this process, so if anyone wants to take part, get your thinking caps on and keep an eye on the forums for more news.
<talkIRC> sounds like fun, and i'd love to learn ark a little better as well.
<Goki_ET> it is important to say, that spoilers will be inevitable, and for those who take part, to remember to not spoil things for others who'd like to stay surprised, and also to not take advantage of "insider knowledge" once the event goes live.
<talkIRC> possible that there could be a NDA? (non-disclosure agreement) to help prevent spoilers and the like.
<Goki_ET> well, all of the Forge project falls under this general idea really.
<talkIRC> i believe that would be a fair requirement to taking part in the project, given that it will be "open to everyone" perhaps a clause for this should be stated...

Meeting of may, the 11th

[Goki] First, for those who havnt seen: http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=topic/view/22868/6# 6. The suggestions made already are good, but mostly lacking in scope. Feel free to think a little bigger. On saturday we will meet here, and collect the ideas posted and start work on creating the event. I will put my own ideas up for consideration thursday.  I would suggest, to try and think creativly with the materials we already have access to. New models / textures etc are possible to add but working with Ark is more the main focus.

[Tamarea] New Ark modules are being created. Adding them will allow to end the coding of the first rite of the new encyclopedy (and so to continue with the next rites)
[Goki] Thanks to Ulukyns hard work, a lot of the tools needed to start working on the first Encyclopedia rite are now in place. So barring intteruptions for small technical Event team related things, Progress has started on that! (yay)

[Tamarea] Thanks to these new modules, the current bugged marauder rite can be rewritten properly. It will so be available in its original version (6 medals to steal and not only 2) and the homins running through the rite won't be cheated several time from 300,000 dappers anymore.

13th of july, 2015

1 Ark interface

The simplification of the ARK interface to make it being usable easily by users paused waiting for the dev to end new ticket system and payment plugin.


2 Anlor Winn project

Remigra has done some nice work with a few visual things that we can use for Anlor Winn. These visual changes are for 4 land textures, 4 species of trees and flowers. They will affect the 4 nations, Almati and Nexus (but not the Prime Roots) during the event only:

For information: all mounts are not changed, and the floor only changes in summer because it was summer during the tests. You just have to change the letters of the files for the other seasons and countries when they do not exist.
Since the event will run on 2 weeks, these missing files must be added. The ruse consisting in renaming the files works without any problem.

The next step now is to come up with a good premise for the event - the primary obligation being that the event has to be *fully* automated.
One idea: Anlor Winn could go out of a burning kitin.
Another idea: dynamic kitin invasions (smaller scale) that are reactive based on player actiity for each region. This is something a little ambitious but to test.

Q: Is "Pocket Worlds" still under developement, or is it on hold too?
R: Yes it is. The first work is to make Ark interface more easy for the players. And priority is the payment method now.

Q: Many have told me that the secular Halloween, had no place in Ryzom actually. What do you think?
R: The issue is that it's a real life stuff, not a Lore one. We would break the roleplay immersion with playing a real life event. That's the reason why we have created Anlor Winn (Malefic Wind), that looks better with Atys world.

!!! Finale Terra Packet für Anlor Win zum testen !!!

May, 2nd 2016

Deed: I'd like to get some help for event scripts from the time before ARK. If it would be possible to get an example of an old script, or an explanation? 
Gaueko: I will contact Ark Team to tell them to talk with you. I hope they can help you with your petition!